To Bottle Green Gooseberries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pick green gooseberries and pack them tightly into bottles without bruising.
Fill the bottles with syrup up to the necks.
Seal and boil
Cork the bottles and secure them with string.
Boil the bottles gently for 10 minutes after the water reaches a boil.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Green gooseberries
- Provide the fruit, its tart flavour and the firm texture that holds its shape during gentle heating.
- Syrup
- Sweetens the fruit and, through its sugar content, helps preserve it while it is heated in the bottles.
The step that matters
Boil the bottles gently. Time the 10 minutes only after the water reaches a boil. A gentle simmer heats the contents evenly without bursting the bottles or breaking the fruit apart.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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